Argo is a 2012 American thriller film directed by Ben Affleck based loosely on Tony Mendez's account of the historical rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The film stars Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman, and was released in North America on October 12, 2012. The film was co-produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed
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In 1979, during the Iranian Revolution, a group of young Iranian revolutionaries took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran in retaliation for the country's support of the recently deposed Shah. Although most of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, six evade capture and hide in the home of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor (Victor Garber). With the escapees' situation kept secret, the State Department begins to explore options for "exfiltrating" them from Iran. CIA specialist Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck), brought in for consultation, points out the fundamental weaknesses in all of the proposals for how to do so, but is at a loss to suggest an alternative until he gets an idea while watching the science-fiction movie Battle for the Planet of the Apes on TV with his son: create a cover story that the escapees are Canadian filmmakers, scouting "exotic" locations in Iran for a similar film.
Mendez and his supervisor Jack O'Donnell (Bryan Cranston) contact John Chambers (John Goodman), a Hollywood make-up artist who has previously crafted disguises for the CIA in addition to his work in the Apes film series. Chambers puts them in touch with Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), a modestly successful film producer. Together they set up a phoney film studio and successfully establish the pretense of developing Argo a "science fantasy" in the style of the recent hit Star Wars, to lend credibility to the cover story. Meanwhile, the situation in Tehran is getting more strained. The hostage crisis is dragging into months, and the escapees are growing frantic confined to the ambassador's residence. Shredded documentation from the US embassy is being reassembled, providing the revolutionaries with evidence that there are embassy personnel unaccounted for, and their identities.
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Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez
Bryan Cranston as Jack O'Donnell
Alan Arkin as Lester Siegel
John Goodman as John Chambers
Clea DuVall as Cora Lijek
Kyle Chandler as Hamilton Jordan
Victor Garber as Ken Taylor
Tate Donovan as Bob Anders
Michael Parks as Jack Kirby
Tom Lenk as Rodd
Christopher Stanley as Tom Ahern
Taylor Schilling as Christine Mendez
Ashley Wood as Beauty
Sheila Vand as Sahar
Chris Messina as Malinov
Richard Kind as Max Klein
Titus Welliver as Jon Bates
Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz
Devansh Mehta as Matt Sanders
Omid Abtahi as Reza
Scoot McNairy as Joe Stafford
Kerry Bishé as Kathy Stafford
Christopher Denham as Mark Lijek
Bob Gunton as Cyrus Vance
Philip Baker Hall as maybe Vice President Mondale
Adrienne Barbeau as Nina
Fouad Hajji as Komiteh
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